Alternative payment models: A path forward. [PDF]
> Ironically, at the very time definitive data are confirming primary care’s essential contributions to health care … practicing primary care physicians are demoralized, retiring early, and advising others not to go into the field . > > Allan H.
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Paediatric alternative payment models: emerging elements. [PDF]
Purpose of review The aim of this study was to summarize emerging elements of paediatric alternative payment models (APMs), identify strategies to address barriers in implementing paediatric APMs and share policy approaches. Recent findings The unique health needs of children and ...
Gratale D, Viveiros J, Boyer K.
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A Scoping Review of Alternative Payment Models in Maternity Care: Insights in Key Design Elements and Effects on Health and Spending [PDF]
Introduction: Although effects of alternative payment models on health outcomes and health spending are unclear, they are increasingly implemented in maternity care.
Eline F. de Vries +4 more
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The economics of alternative payment models for pharmaceuticals. [PDF]
Pharmaceuticals are priced uniformly by convention, but vary in their degree of effectiveness for different disease indications. As more high-cost therapies have launched, the demand for alternative payment models (APMs) has been increasing in many advanced markets, despite their well-documented limitations and challenges to implementation.
Hlávka JP +3 more
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Alternative Payment Models and Patient-Reported Quality of Preparation for Discharge: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study [PDF]
Preparing patients for posthospital care may improve readmission risk. Alternative payment models (APMs) incent hospitals to reduce readmissions by tying payment to outcomes. The impact of APMs on preparation for discharge is not well understood.
Sunny C. Lin PhD MS +3 more
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Alternative payment models and urology. [PDF]
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is a historic bill that was recently passed that establishes how quality measurement and practice patterns will affect physician reimbursement. Alternative payment models (APMs) are an essential component of MACRA and Medicare's vision of paying for high-value care.
Kaye DR, Miller DC, Ellimoottil C.
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Oncology alternative payment models: lessons from commercial insurance. [PDF]
Many payers and clinicians are committed to advancing value-based care through the establishment of alternative payment models (APMs) that incentivize practices and clinicians to improve quality and reduce cost. A multistakeholder working group has observed that in specialty fields such as oncology, despite many attempts to design and implement APM ...
Shaughnessy E +9 more
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Use of alternative payment models for substance use disorder prevention in the United States: development of a conceptual framework [PDF]
Background Alternative payment models (APMs) are methods through which insurers reimburse health care providers and are widely used to improve the quality and value of health care.
Elian Rosenfeld +10 more
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Building alternative payment models in health care
IntroductionGlobal interest is growing in new value-based models of financing, delivering, and paying for health care services that could produce higher-quality and lower cost outcomes for patients and for society.
Steven W. Howard +6 more
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Pandemic amplifies calls for alternative payment models. [PDF]
Doctors who depend on fee-for-service payments have seen their incomes drop considerably during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, while those paid under other models have been relatively unscathed Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, a family doctor in Ottawa and one of the 26 physicians who launched the petition, says her income is down by 30% to ...
Glauser W.
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